Happy Friday everyone. For more festive and Halloween based illustrations check out this Helen Borten post I created last year, otherwise here’s a little illustrative nostalgia for you to enjoy.

Born in England in 1929 in Surbiton, SW London, Terence Greer studied painting at Twickenham School of Art, joined the RAF in 1947, then studied at St Martin’s and the Royal Academy School.

Between the 1950s- and the 1980s he was both a playwright and illustrator. Illustrating book covers for Penguin Books and in magazines such as The Economist and Radio Times.

One of his greatest visual impressions from childhood was the Hollywood films from the 1930’s. His consuming interests are jazz, the cinema, photography and the more graphic work of Picasso. Perhaps as a consequence, his work does have an almost cinematic feel to it.

He was represented by Saxon Artist Agents. He later focused on painting while living in Australia, then Canada, Vancouver being his home since the mid 1990s.

His works have been exhibited at the V&A and Ashmolean museums.

Sadly there is little information about Terence online, if anyone has any better images or more up to date info than I’ll happily add it to this post. Thank you. Many thanks to Tracy J Prince who took many of the initial photographs found on Pinterest

Don’t forget over the weekend to enter my online competition before monday. It’s been a super week for blog mentions too, many thanks again to Lizzie over at Dream Discover Italia for her excellant nomination for a ‘Lovely Blog Award’ . Also to Eleanor over at The Pink Tank for selecting Fishink blog as one of their top 5 art blogs and finally PR Media company Cision for including it in their top 10 ! Wow quite a week : ) Keep spreading the new everyone and have a safe and scary Halloween too !